The case of the over-marketing of Kyphon's kyphoplasty device (look here ) just got more complicated, and now appears to have involved a...
Showing posts with label medical devices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical devices. Show all posts
55 of Medtronic's Best Hospital Friends, Including HCA, Settle for $34 Million
The case of the over-marketing of Kyphon's kyphoplasty device (look here ) just got more complicated, and now appears to have involved a...
Computer Viruses Are "Rampant" on Medical Devices in Hospitals
As if there weren't enough problems with hospitals as computing backwaters, now there's this: Computer Viruses Are "Rampant...
Back to the Future - Another Medical Device Company Accused of Hiding ICD Defects
Suppression of data about defects in and failures of implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) was one of the big issues we featured in the ...
FDA: Software Failures Responsible for 24% Of All Medical Device Recalls
At " FDA: Software Failures Responsible for 24% Of All Medical Device Recalls " via Kapersky Labs, a software security company, it...
Hospital Executives - What Will They Think of Next?
Health care organizations are now most often run by people with management, not clinical backgrounds. It seems like business schools have t...
Medtronic Settles, Yet Again
And the march of legal settlements continues... Circling around the block and coming in front of the viewing stand again is device manufact...
RUCing About - Conflicts of Interest Affecting the Members of the RBRVS Update Committee
Since 2007, we have been writing about the secretive RUC (RBRVS Update Committee), the private AMA committee that somehow has managed to ge...
Why Would Directors of Health Care Corporations Push for Bigger Pensions for Academic Administrators?
We recently posted about 36 well-paid top executives in the University of California system, including leaders of medical schools, academic...
Exactech Settles, Its Regional Sales Director Pleads Guilty
The march of legal settlements by health care organizations continues. Here is a curious story in two parts. The first part was reported ...
BLOGSCAN - Medtronic's Multi-Million Dollar Payments to Spine Surgeons
Starting in 2007, we discussed the huge payments made by four medical device companies to orthopedic surgeons and medical organizations rela...
The Boards Who Ought to be Accountable for the Misbehavior of Health Care Corporations
I recently posted about the multiple conflicts of interest affecting a university health sciences leader. While he was supposed to be runn...
